Beer survives nuclear strike

A Cold War-era study was found recently, prepared by the U.S. Army. The documents were discovered by Alex Wellerstein of Restricted Data. The documents show that the American researchers were concerned with the question of how a nuclear attack influences the texture and taste of beer.

The study shows that during the Operation Teapot carried out in the Nevada desert in 1955, when fourteen nuclear weapons were tested, it was also examined how packaged food, including beer respond to radioactive radiation of twenty and thirty-kiloton bombs. The food, the beer and soft drinks were placed in houses of Potemkin villages in the desert.

The nearest foods were just three hundred meters from the epicenter of the explosion, the furthests were about three kilometers away. The radiation had a negligible impact on the food products, the researchers believe they can be consumed in an emergency case. Beer had a bit strange taste, but fortunately not undrinkable. (Index)